The following indicators have been developed to assess achievement of our Council outcomes that were set as part of the 2012-22 Long–term Plan.

The Council’s outcomes are our aspirations for the city and our communities. They are aimed at promoting Wellington’s social, economic, environmental, and cultural wellbeing now and in the future.

The Council outcomes reflect areas of the city we are able to influence, whereas community outcomes reflect the community’s overall aspirations including areas we have limited ability to influence (for example, affordability of housing). Over time we expect to see improvement across all areas. The information provided below is a complete record of the ‘outcomes indicators’ section under each strategy area.

We use some acronyms:

GIS: Geographic Information Systems

PWT: Positively Wellington Tourism

NZTA: New Zealand Transport Agency

TEC: Tertiary Education Commission.

Governance outcome indicators

COUNCIL OUTCOME INDICATOR

SOURCE

DATA

Residents who agree that decisions are made in the best interests of the city

WCC Residents’ Monitoring Survey

(2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13) 59%, 61%, 60%, 55%, 31%

Residents who state that they understand how the Council makes decisions

23.7 billion L This figure is total usage excluding unaccounted for water

Renewable energy (GWh) generated in the city (and % of city's electricity consumption)

Meridian Energy

Total renewable energy generated in the city = 475,850 MWh42 , which is equivalent to 35% of the city’s electricity consumption.43

City-wide greenhouse gas emissions

We have commissioned URS New Zealand to do our city-wide greenhouse gas inventories for 200/01, 2006/07, 2009/10 and 2012/13 using the latest international best practice methodology. This will be reported on in the 2013/14 Annual Report.

(2013) Spoken to a neighbour: 92%; given help to a neighbour: 58%; received help from a neighbour: 43%; participated in an activity with a neighbour: 28%; discussed emergency preparedness with a neighbour: 12%; none of the above: 7%

Types of social networks to which residents belong (community, sports, ethnic, etc)

39All per capita calculations are based on the most recent 30 June 2012 Wellington City resident population estimate from Statistics NZ (202,200).

40The number of volunteer groups continues to increase, however record keeping of volunteer hours across the 75 groups can be difficult.

41Two years ago we changed the areas we were conducting bird counts in, which led to a change in abundance that we were recording. This is the information from the November 2012 bird count.

42This figure does not include small scale renewables such as solar PV, microwind and solar hot water.

43The vast majority of this renewable energy total is from Project West Wind, which connects into the national grid as opposed to Wellington City. This means that some electricity produced by West Wind will be consumed by other parts of the country.

44The data we use for this measure is the number of multi-day conferences (events) held in Wellington. This has changed from previous years as a new national Convention Activity Survey (CAS) was initiated by MBIE and the NZ Bureaux (of which the Wellington Convention Bureau is a member). Therefore the data we previously used is not comparable to the new dataset.

45‘A level’ events are defined as those events with a total funding spend of $50K plus, excluding the iconic events, being WOW, Hertz Sevens and NZ International Arts Festival.

47In the 2012/13 Residents’ Monitoring Survey, residents were asked what issues were particularly concerning, as opposed to which issue was of ‘most’ concern.

48There has been an error in calculation of burglary/theft numbers in previous reports. The error has been corrected and data backdated accordingly.

49There has been a national increase in cases of the two most prevalent waterborne diseases – Cryptospoidium and Giardia. The Ministry of Health has increased education awareness on prevention as a result.

50Central city is defined as the Thorndon/Tinakori; Lambton; Willis Street/Cambridge Terrace area units.

51The calculation for this measure has been updated and recalculated for past years. It calculates the social cost of all crashes in Wellington City causing injury and non-injury.